Ergebnis für "Match Point" in Literatur & Belletristik

Jetzt ist alles raus - und aus? Jan hat Sophie per SMS gestanden, dass er über ihre Dates im Radio spricht - und sie gebeten, die nächste Radiosendung anzuhören. Als Jan aus dem Studio kommt, erwartet ihn jedoch nicht eine wütende Sophie, sondern ein enttäuschter Ludwig, der Jan schwere Vorwürfe macht.

A cult classic in the United Kingdom since its first publication there in the 1970s, Don't Point That Thing at Me is the first of a series of hilarious and dark-humored crime thrillers featuring the Honorable Charlie Mortdecai: degenerate aristocrat, amoral art dealer, seasoned epicurean, unwilling assassin, and acknowledged coward.

In music, counterpoint is the art of writing melodies that play in conjunction with one another, according to a strict set of rules, in order to emphasize the melody by contrast. In debate, point/counterpoint is a means of persuasion in which the speaker begins by conceding to their opponent’s argument before refuting it wholeheartedly. Aldous Huxley follows these traditions in his masterpiece Point Counter Point. The polarity between passion and reason in the intellectual life of the 1920s is demonstrated both in form and in theme in Huxley’s ambitious satire.